Resource Roundup: environmental Science & Gender-Inclusive Adaptations

Resource Roundup is a newly periodic attempt to capture all the links aggregated through conversations and requests, shared by many. We focus on science education materials but have encountered enough sex education-adjacent curriculum to share the collection below. Your mileage may vary. (RXS)

We shared this guide with attendees at a workshop this year.

TITLE: Gender Inclusive Adaptations to Environmental Education

  1. Overall Guides

    1. Principles of Gender Inclusive Biology (cheat sheet)

    2. How to Respond to Common Questions/Objections to GIB teaching (quick & easy tips)

    3. Gender-Inclusive Biology: A Framework in Action (NSTA article with resources)

    4. How do we present gender, sex, and sexuality as part of inclusive and accurate science teaching? (extensive STEM Teaching Tools brief)

    5. Middle & High School Resources (direct links to lessons)

  2. Models for Gender & Sexuality Teaching

    1. Gender Visualization Tools

      1. Scientific American - Beyond XX and XY (flowchart)

      2. GLSEN Gender Triangle Education Guide (identity-expression-attribution-assignment)

      3. Gender Unicorn (spectra)

      4. Gender & Sexuality Galaxies (cloud concept map)

    2. Sex Determination - Why so many ways of doing it?

  3. Language

    1. Language Guide (table, differentiated by discipline & intensity)

    2. Talking to Kids About Science in a Gender-Inclusive Way (article w/ table)

    3. STEM/Equity Etymology Posters (print-ready slides)

  4. Gender & Environmental Education 

    1. Epigenetics - environment changes genetics 

      1. Temperature-dependent sex determination (crocodile video)

      2. Temperature-dependent sex determination (turtle video)

      3. Touch-based sex determination (slipper limpets video & diagram)

      4. Early life nurturing & later life stress response (lick your rats)

    2. Variation & Survival During Change - what survives?

      1. Evolution of Sexual Reproduction (Nature summary)

      2. Gender Showcase (bite-size posts about enduring variation in survival)

      3. Queer species database of 200+ organisms (research source)

      4. Diverse Animal Reproduction (survey & reflection) (r- k- strategy gallery walk)

      5. Pigeonetics Game (answer key available in guide)

    3. TEK - traditional ecological knowledge

      1. Why do the foods we eat matter? (Native-driven environmentalism for salmon in 3 case studies) (at a glance guide)

      2. (See also newsletter issue Oct2019)

      3. Resource roundup on this coming soon; just need to describe them (RXS)

    FURTHER RESOURCES

    Myths of Human Genetics (data and graphs for lots of human genetic traits that aren’t clear; tongue rolling, widow’s peak, etc.)

    Questionable Questions About Transgender Identity (Answers to Qs it’s rude to ask)

    Questions Parents Ask About Transgender People

Attendees also received a summary of all the resources and Q&As generated during the workshop, as well as opportunities to workshop their own curriculum on request. (If you’re interested in a workshop online, send us a note via the form at the bottom of the page.)